In April 1937, the merger of Lixingshe, headed by Dai Li, and the Party Affairs Investigation Section of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, headed by Xu Enzeng, was completed.
The name still follows the "Statistics and Investigation Bureau of the Military Commission of the National Government", with Chen Lifu as the director.
Xu En was the director of the first division, and Dai Li was still the director of the second division.
It seems like it's just a merger, a change of flavor but not a new medicine, but in fact there has been a fundamental change.
One office is responsible for party affairs.
The Second Division assumed all intelligence and spy work.
At the same time, the spy organizational structure and rules and regulations were also deepened.
Whether you are an internal or external service officer or a special agent stationed in a public agency, it is a lifelong career and you are not allowed to quit.
Moreover, its prisons, detention centers, and solitary cells have also been enlarged.
The rights of the two offices were expanded without limit.
Moreover, the title "Lixingshe" began to gradually fade out of the stage of history, and they began to refer to themselves more as "military reunification agents."
There is actually no difference between the terms "secret agent" and "secret agent". However, the status of the word "secret agent" in the minds of the Chinese people is obviously not that good.
During the same period, the power of Major Meng Shaoyuan, deputy chief of the Operations Section of the Second Military Unification Division, was also increased.
He can organize actions at any time and call prison at any time without asking for instructions.
"Calling jail at any time" is just a nicer way of saying it.
To be more precise, Meng Shaoyuan can arrest any suspect at will.
Dai Li’s paramilitary forces also began to vigorously form:
Armed Rangers.
This is based on the special operations group first established by Meng Shaoyuan as a template.
Meng Shaoyuan also made some changes accordingly:
The special operations team commanded by Yue Zhenchuan and Wei Yunzhe remained unchanged. He selected some personnel from the spies and police and added them to the team.
By April, the special operations group had expanded to fifty-three people.
In accordance with Dai Li's wishes, he established the First Brigade of the Armed Rangers, with him personally serving as the captain. This was a second paramilitary echelon inferior to the Special Operations Group in terms of combat quality and paramilitary organizational standards.
The personnel are of high quality, and after long-term training, the well-armed special operations personnel constitute his beloved, the best among the best.
In fact, this is not his original work.
Just as the Armed Rangers have templates, the Special Operations Group has templates:
Later the paramilitary organization of the CIA.
Can be deployed to any conflict location anytime, anywhere.
This is just the beginning.
In order to increase the rapid response capabilities of the special operations group, Meng Shaoyuan used his privileges to add a large number of vehicles to the organization.
This, of course, also caused dissatisfaction among some people.
But he, Meng Shaoyuan, is now favored by Director Dai, so who can do anything to him?
Not only did the military begin to develop at full speed, Meng Shaoyuan also established an internal training class to provide in-depth training to his promising agents.
For example, Guo Rui once proposed that he be transferred directly to the special operations group, because in his opinion, this organization can have more direct and intimate contact with the battlefield.
In his heart, he still had some vague resistance to "agents".
In response to this issue, Meng Shaoyuan specifically talked about it in the training class: "You have all participated in training. In various training classes, you have learned the skills that agents must have such as shooting, fighting, and driving. I have also learned the same skills as you.
Some of you will become spies in the future, and you will have to unlearn these skills from your first day as spies. "
This was something that even the agents at the time could not understand.
Why should we forget the skills we have learned so hard?
"If you are on the battlefield, these skills can be of great use to you, but in espionage work, the usefulness of these skills is basically zero. No one would ask a spy to fight and chase people all day long. . Spies are more often silent."
Meng Shaoyuan said slowly: "Guo Rui, for example, when you are ordered to lurk one day, think about it carefully, do you use your gun more or your brain? I can tell you one thing, 'Use the portable A lawyer in a box can steal more money than a gunman."
This sentence immediately put a smile on everyone's face.
This is not an invention of Meng Shaoyuan, but a famous saying of the CIA.
There was no smile on Meng Shaoyuan's face: "Many of you, especially those who have become spies not long ago, are always more eager to join the army and go to the battlefield to kill the enemy with your own hands.
Or you, Guo Rui, if you were to become a company commander now and command a company, a company of the Central Army, how many enemies could you command your company to kill on the battlefield? "
Guo Rui thought for a moment and said enthusiastically: "At least two hundred to three hundred people!"
"You're bragging, you can't kill so many. If one day, we really go to war with...ah, as you all know, a company of the Central Army can kill fifty enemies, which will be considered a brilliant victory."
Meng Shaoyuan finally smiled: "Okay, I'll assume that you can kill five hundred enemies, but what about a completely latent spy? When he delivers a vital piece of information, he can kill tens of thousands or more than a dozen enemies. Thousands of enemies were wiped out!
Just one person! This is something that no army can do, not even a small company commander like you, or even a division commander or corps commander.
I have told people before that there are famous heroes on the battlefield and there are unknown heroes, and we belong to the latter. In war, the role of a great spy exceeds that of an army group. "
Guo Rui was shocked in his heart.
Famous heroes, unknown heroes.
Which one should you choose?
If another person told him this truth, he might not be convinced.
But the person who is saying these words to him now is Guo Rui's idol.
Yes, like many secret agents, Guo Rui also regarded Meng Shaoyuan as his idol.
Therefore, Guo Rui began to accept his identity.
Be an unknown hero and exert more energy than an army group.
"time is limited."
At this time, no one understood what Meng Shaoyuan meant when he said "time is running out."
"If any of you still have doubts in your mind and think you are not suitable to be a spy, you can speak out." Meng Shaoyuan said calmly:
"I, Meng Shaoyuan, will never delay your future. I can even issue you a certificate to help you find the most suitable position in the army.
But if you choose to stay, I hope you can admit your identity and what you are doing. Being a spy is not just about arresting people. Our mission from now on will also change. "
Leave the party work to Xu Enzeng. From now on, there will be only one kind of enemy:
Japanese!
In April 1937, there were only more than three months left before the blood and fire!
